La Negra Negustias is a little known novel by the Mexican author Francisco Rojas González about la coronela Angustias Farrera,a Afro Mexican mulatto women who served as a colonel under Emiliano Zapata during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1916). Published in 1944, I came across the novel in a book store of the Fondo de Cultura Economicawhile studying in Guadalajara, Mexico in the early 1990s; González is a native of Guadalajara. I also came a across a film version of the novel while in graduate school at Syracuse University. The novel is notable because it delves into the African presence in Mexico outside of traditional Afro Mexican communities in places like La Costa Chica in the state of Guerrero, the resistance of the young and attractive Angustias to the traditional roles of women in rural Mexican society. The novel discusses conditions in rural Mexico that led peasant farmers and agricultural workers to take up arms against Mexico’s landed oligarchy who supported Dictator Porfirio Diaz.